How we failed at Germany’s favorite fall tradition
Around the 11th November – the St. Martin’s Day – German daycares and schools prepare for an event called Laternenlaufen or Laternenumzug, roughly…
“Does she understand German?” – First Multilingual Troubles
The other day when I was picking Birdy up from the KITA (i.e. the kindergarten) one of her group’s teachers used the relative…
Birdy Goes to Kindergarten
Here in Germany a baby’s first birthday marks the end of the paid parental leave and many little ones begin going to kindergarten, known…